"Plot of Not"

"They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance." (Psalms 83:4) Okay, so sometimes it hurts. Get over it! You don't think God feels our pain? Look what He went through to pay the price for our sins. Whether you are a person suffering through some trial, or the parent of someone who is, He was on both sides of the issue, and He took the full force of what hurt feels like. But there was one great difference in the way He suffered, He saw the prize that waited at the end of the suffering. That does not mean we can't see it too, because we can; with a little faith, we can see clearly and without any doubt what waits on the other side of this life. This is how the enemy gets people to forget the promises of God, by cutting of the memories of His promises. It's the same for the people of Israel, just as it is for the Christian who wanders aimlessly through life: God's promises are placed on a shelf, and then they move from the house where that shelf is located. Weird, I know; but here is the thing that matters most, more than any person or place on this earth: God's Word is secure and never changes! Here are a couple promises that God has placed in the Holy Scriptures, where they are never removed: Genesis 3:15 and Genesis 3:3. We can assume that the enemy is winning all we want, but those two verses proclaim that he never will win the war. He might win some small battles here and there, but that has no affect on the end result, because in the end, God wins! A strange thing happen yesterday with the message at church; Pastor Bryan started his message speaking about all those people who started out at failures, but ended up doing great things; people like Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, and many others. As I left the church property, I heard Pastor Ben on the radio closing his message with the exact same list of people. It was as if they were reading from the same commentary; go figure! Seriously, they were speaking of those people with the exact same words...
"Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. Through their faith, the people of old earned a good reputation. By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God's command, that what we see did not come from anything that can be seen. It was by faith that Abel brought a more acceptable offering to God than Cain did. Abel's offering gave evidence that he was a righteous man, and God showed his approval of his gifts. Although Abel is long dead, he still speaks to us by his example of faith."
(Hebrews 11:1-4) NLT